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jon: a brand new look at one of the most secretive and controversial policies of the obama administration. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. glad you're with us today. i'm jenna lee. these reports are surfacing of a confidential justice department memo that authorizes the killing of american citizens overseas in drone strikes. now there's a caveat. the killing is allowed if they're leaders of al qaeda or a associated terror group. this alone considered an imminent threat, even if there is it no clear evidence that a specific attack on the united states will take place in the immediate future. and the whole controversial issue sure to come up when the president's pick to head the cia john brennan, testifies at his confirmation hearings later this week. timing matters. chief intelligence correspondent herridge shirge is live in washington with more on this. >> reporter: this is clash between executive powers and congressional oversight. at center of this is the assertion by the obama white house it has the right to target american citizens for death without judicial review.
jon: a brand new look at one of the most secretive and controversial policies of the obama administration. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. glad you're with us today. i'm jenna lee. these reports are surfacing of a confidential justice department memo that authorizes the killing of american citizens overseas in drone strikes. now there's a caveat. the killing is allowed if they're leaders of al qaeda or a associated terror group. this alone considered an imminent threat, even...
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. >>> president obama plans a trip to israel. what it could mean for his dicey relationship with benjamin netanyahu and our role in this volatile region. >>> how being facebook friends with someone could mean a big change in the courtroom. it is all "happening now." jenna: i don't think we're facebook friends, are we. jon: i don't think so. jenna: is that okay for our relationship? jon: that's a good thing. jenna: i think might be a good thing. jon: there is a cloud of controversy though hanging over the president's choice to lead the cia good wednesday morning to, to you, i'm jon scott. this is my nonfacebook friend. jenna: we're all friends. this is on a bigger level. i'm jenna lee. we're glad to have you as we look at this big story. john brennan gears up for his confirmation hearings tomorrow and he could face resistance from republicans democrats and some of the president's really usual supporters. it will come on a number of issues. all of this questioning, potential controversy from the program that authorizes targeted dro
. >>> president obama plans a trip to israel. what it could mean for his dicey relationship with benjamin netanyahu and our role in this volatile region. >>> how being facebook friends with someone could mean a big change in the courtroom. it is all "happening now." jenna: i don't think we're facebook friends, are we. jon: i don't think so. jenna: is that okay for our relationship? jon: that's a good thing. jenna: i think might be a good thing. jon: there is a cloud...
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mccain and obama do not get along. mccain has complained that over the years the white house would not reach out to him on immigration reform. so mccain now working with other senators on the democratic side and republican side on immigration. there has been no alliance between john mccain and president obama. jon: again so interesting that a former republican senator is getting held up by primarily by people he used to be arm in arm with, his fellow republicans in the senate. >> yes. jon: we'll keep an eye on this story. bob cusack from "the hill." thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: u.s. general john allen announcing he is retiring as nato supreme allied commander in europe. was it his decision? was he pushed out? what is the real backstory here? we have a live report ahead. >>> also a brutal brawl at an oregon skating rink caught on video. the latest for the search for the suspects is straight ahead. jon: coming up new next hour, looks like the end of the miss rememberry -- misery cruise. they're back in port after sp
mccain and obama do not get along. mccain has complained that over the years the white house would not reach out to him on immigration reform. so mccain now working with other senators on the democratic side and republican side on immigration. there has been no alliance between john mccain and president obama. jon: again so interesting that a former republican senator is getting held up by primarily by people he used to be arm in arm with, his fellow republicans in the senate. >> yes....
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so this could kind of be the nixon goes to china time for obama. if he were to reach out to republicans, he's got the credibility in his own party. that's where a large majority of his popularity comes from, from his base. it's where it should come from. does he reach out to republicans, does he try to solve the issue with the debt, does he try to create changes in the way we are spending today that can stimulate the economy and create jobs? we'll find out what his approach is. if it's more of these poll-tested platitudes like he did in the inauguration where he talked about gay rights, global warming, immigration, those things matter to a lot of people, but not everyone. people are worried about does he try to cut spending and the deficit, and if so, i think it'll be a successful speech for him. jon: the president got what he wanted in terms of higher tax rates on the people he calls millionaires and billionaires, and congress turned around and spent all of that money on one bill, the sandy can relief bill. sandy relief bill. so does he then push
so this could kind of be the nixon goes to china time for obama. if he were to reach out to republicans, he's got the credibility in his own party. that's where a large majority of his popularity comes from, from his base. it's where it should come from. does he reach out to republicans, does he try to solve the issue with the debt, does he try to create changes in the way we are spending today that can stimulate the economy and create jobs? we'll find out what his approach is. if it's more of...
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barack obama got 70%. i mean it seems like republicans are getting their feet held to the fire on this issue? >> they're getting their feet held to the fire but they have to walk lightly with this issue because they can't seem like they're race bating and actually doing immigration reform to gain the latino vote. you have people on both sides of the aisle that see the immigration policy needs to be done but they can't do it for political gain. they will fail. jon: they have to do it for good, good politics is good policy i guess? >> good policy is good politics. they are leaders. we need change. we need true change and not pushing it through, look what happened with health care, health care reform. we pushed that through and look what we got. i'm basically with the congress in moving this slowly. jon: and that could, well that could anger the white us who. the president wants his thing now, he wants it tomorrow. >> right. but if it is dead on arrival. it is a great politician, he will not put it forth. i t
barack obama got 70%. i mean it seems like republicans are getting their feet held to the fire on this issue? >> they're getting their feet held to the fire but they have to walk lightly with this issue because they can't seem like they're race bating and actually doing immigration reform to gain the latino vote. you have people on both sides of the aisle that see the immigration policy needs to be done but they can't do it for political gain. they will fail. jon: they have to do it for...
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also, president obama promising more transparency on those lethal drone strikes overseas. this as the faa moves forward with plans for drones here in the u.s. a look at the latest efforts to put more eyes in the skies. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. jenna: breaking this hour, new images of oscar pistorius in court. the south african olympian known as, "blade runner", seen sobbing as he is formerly charged with murder. as you know he is accused of shooting and killing his model girlfriend on valentine's day. we have team coverage. lori rothman covering some business angles emerged given the story is such a huge superstar athlete. we begin with elizabeth prann with the latest on the case. >> reporter: what an emotional hearing it was, jenna. oscar pistorius sobbing as he stood with his head down in front of the judge as he was forma
also, president obama promising more transparency on those lethal drone strikes overseas. this as the faa moves forward with plans for drones here in the u.s. a look at the latest efforts to put more eyes in the skies. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup....
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even though president obama has said the u.s. does not have a spending problem, a new fox poll shows americans overwhelmingly believe the country's pursestrings are way too loose. take a look at this. a whopping 83% of americans say the federal government does have a spending problem. south dakota republican senator john thune agrees saying washington is addicted to spending your money. >> at $16.4 trillion, our nation's total debt is now larger than our entire economy. this means that every man, woman and child owes a $53,000 share of this debt. that level of spending is unsustainable. the only way, the only way to dig ourselves out of this hole and put our country on a sound financial footing is to get spending under control. jon: senator john thune joins me now from the capitol. senator thune, president obama won re-election in part touting the same thing that got him through his first term which seemed to involve a lot of government spending. how do you turn that around? >> be good question, jon. and i expect tonight we'll he
even though president obama has said the u.s. does not have a spending problem, a new fox poll shows americans overwhelmingly believe the country's pursestrings are way too loose. take a look at this. a whopping 83% of americans say the federal government does have a spending problem. south dakota republican senator john thune agrees saying washington is addicted to spending your money. >> at $16.4 trillion, our nation's total debt is now larger than our entire economy. this means that...
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today, president obama will appear on local tv stations around the country. it is part of the march 1 sequestration deadline. yesterday, the president's campaign style push for a deal. one group that could be hit hard by budget cuts. politico is reporting that the president's strategy is to shame republicans into cutting a deal. >> you don't want to see a bunch of first responders lose their jobs because he protected special interests. are you going to have teachers laid-off? or kids not have access to headstart? or deeper cuts in student loan programs? just because you want to protect a special tax interest loophole that the vast majority of americans don't benefit from. that is the choice. that is the question. jon: meanwhile, house speaker john boehner writes that it is president obama who brought the country to this point. let's talk about it with juan williams, are fox news political analyst. what do you think about the presidential blame game? >> is hardball politics, and they are playing the one card that they have, which is to try to put pressure on d
today, president obama will appear on local tv stations around the country. it is part of the march 1 sequestration deadline. yesterday, the president's campaign style push for a deal. one group that could be hit hard by budget cuts. politico is reporting that the president's strategy is to shame republicans into cutting a deal. >> you don't want to see a bunch of first responders lose their jobs because he protected special interests. are you going to have teachers laid-off? or kids not...
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president barack obama, for rebuking senator barack obama when he was excoriating the bush white house. in the long term the effects of this will be good because it is part of what is called a war on terror which was authorized by congress in the days after 9/11 and it is right that this should be a presidential decision. >> most of the criticism of the president's decision, this is president obama now, we're speaking of, has really focused on his passion for secrecy, rather than on the action itself. so most people are not questioning the right to kill people rather than capture and interrogate them which might be a value to our national security. >> people should acquaint themselves with the federalist papers. secrecy and executive dispatch is the reason we have a president, not just a parliamentary system. and so that's what president obama has discovered too. jon: but we also got rid of kings or, you know, set up a government that doesn't involve kings because we didn't like having one person have the power to sort of order life-and-death decisions. >> right. but we also understand
president barack obama, for rebuking senator barack obama when he was excoriating the bush white house. in the long term the effects of this will be good because it is part of what is called a war on terror which was authorized by congress in the days after 9/11 and it is right that this should be a presidential decision. >> most of the criticism of the president's decision, this is president obama now, we're speaking of, has really focused on his passion for secrecy, rather than on the...
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jon: high noon on the east coast, and right now president obama is in virginia. he's there to talk about, you know what it is, the sequester, right? the automatic spending cuts that kick in on friday. and how it will affect the economy. welcome, i'm jon scott. jenna: sequester, huh? jon: you heard that term before? jenna: i have. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. the president is focusing on the impact of cuts specifically to the military if this all happens on friday. he's on his way to visit virginia's largest industrial employer, a shipbuilder. and he's warning the sequester will put hundreds of thousands of people in the defense industry out of work. wendell goler is live in newport news, virginia, with more on this. wendellsome. >> reporter: jenna, 90,000 virginians employed by the defense department could be furloughed if there's no deal by friday. newport news is really the heart of this country's shipbuilding industry. that green circle behind me is the radar dome, the nose cone of what will one day be the nuclear submarine illinois, but work schedules here a
jon: high noon on the east coast, and right now president obama is in virginia. he's there to talk about, you know what it is, the sequester, right? the automatic spending cuts that kick in on friday. and how it will affect the economy. welcome, i'm jon scott. jenna: sequester, huh? jon: you heard that term before? jenna: i have. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. the president is focusing on the impact of cuts specifically to the military if this all happens on friday. he's on his way to visit...
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especially the ma critical -- mcchrystal review under president obama. you have afghan security force, 350,000 strong. most of the units are fighting reasonably well. they're not fighting against each other along ethnic lines. there is not the kind of sectarian conflict we saw in iraq where you have tajiks against pashtuns. they're on track for a presidential next year. president karzai says he will respect the constitution and step down. there are a number of hopeful indicators. jon: you're going with the glass half fall scenario at least? >> 52% full. jon: michael al o'hanlon from the brookings institution. >> my pleasure. jon: jenna. jenna: arguing over government spending we're learning the feds are spending more than 100 million dollars a year to pay workers for doing nothing. we'll explain that coming up. >>> the prosecutor in the jodi arias murder trial is getting fired up. not necessarily in a good way. not happy with the answers he is getting in cross-examination. we'll discuss whether the aggravation is getting him anywhere. >> i'm more focused
especially the ma critical -- mcchrystal review under president obama. you have afghan security force, 350,000 strong. most of the units are fighting reasonably well. they're not fighting against each other along ethnic lines. there is not the kind of sectarian conflict we saw in iraq where you have tajiks against pashtuns. they're on track for a presidential next year. president karzai says he will respect the constitution and step down. there are a number of hopeful indicators. jon: you're...
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obama's idea in the first place. he signed it into law. >> the president is part of this sequester. the white house recommended it frankly. back in august of 2011. >> it seems like every three months around here there is some manufactured crisis. jon: well that's a look at what crossroads sees in the sequester. no real comment from the white house. there are growing frustrations out of the jodi arias trial. why prosecutors are grilling her in gaps in her memory about the death of her boy friend. coming up. mmm. it's delicious! another angry-satisfied customer. you don't need toppings! and that is why we're fixing this. hey earth! stop topping triscuit! [ male announcer ] 100% whole grain woven for an untoppable taste. jenna: only natural. parents want to keep an eye on their kids but there is some big controversy just how much a new app can tell mom or dad what their teen ager is up to. >> they are developing a app for a android smartphone called teen tracker. they help parents locate and listen to and see what their
obama's idea in the first place. he signed it into law. >> the president is part of this sequester. the white house recommended it frankly. back in august of 2011. >> it seems like every three months around here there is some manufactured crisis. jon: well that's a look at what crossroads sees in the sequester. no real comment from the white house. there are growing frustrations out of the jodi arias trial. why prosecutors are grilling her in gaps in her memory about the death of...
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jon: success r- mark zuckerberg is a big obama supporter. it seems like a strange stop for the republican national committee. >> it's a business. mr. zuckerberg hosted or is going to host a fund-raiser for governor christie out of new jersey. money is green i. don't think that it's such an order plac odd place for the chairman to stop. jon: thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on th on the trip and look for the report when it comes out. jenna: what is behind some of the skyrocketing gas prices and is there relief in sight? what does it mean for the summer prices we're going to see. we'll go in d depth ahead. the stars shining brightly at the oscars last night. the president is calling for wealthy americans to pay their fair share why some top films are getting millions and millions of dollars in tax breaks. what are the a-listers saying about that? we are live with that story ahead. [ male announcer ] what?! investors could lose tens of thousands of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! go to e-trade and roll over your old 401(k)s to a
jon: success r- mark zuckerberg is a big obama supporter. it seems like a strange stop for the republican national committee. >> it's a business. mr. zuckerberg hosted or is going to host a fund-raiser for governor christie out of new jersey. money is green i. don't think that it's such an order plac odd place for the chairman to stop. jon: thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on th on the trip and look for the report when it comes out. jenna: what is behind some of the skyrocketing gas...
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now, if president obama does go cut muscle, things that are important, voters are going to be looking at him saying, mr. president, you could have cut fat. what about those travel budgets? what about the programs that don't work? what about the scandal-ridden or fraud-ridden programs? why aren't you doing that rather than cutting the muscle? jon: but clearly the white house gambling or believing that when all is said and done, the american people are going to blame congress for any ill effects that come from the sequester cuts. >> right. but it's a big bet. and it could turn out badly. i think the republicans ought to take an affirmative step and call the president's bluff. the house republicans ought to, in my opinion, pass legislation that makes clear the president has the authority inside these agencies not to cut every activity across the board, but to cut less essential programs more and important programs less. and they ought to give this flexibility to the president and then use the power under article i, section 9 of the constitution, the power of the purse it's called, and ca
now, if president obama does go cut muscle, things that are important, voters are going to be looking at him saying, mr. president, you could have cut fat. what about those travel budgets? what about the programs that don't work? what about the scandal-ridden or fraud-ridden programs? why aren't you doing that rather than cutting the muscle? jon: but clearly the white house gambling or believing that when all is said and done, the american people are going to blame congress for any ill effects...